I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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